Quotes with short-attention

Quotes 181 till 200 of 510.

  • Sir Isaac Newton If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Julius Epstein If I'd known it was going to be a classic, I would have paid attention.
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  • Abigail Adams If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Cass Sunstein If the prospect of a bad result gets the heart racing - a plane crash, a terrible disease, a loss of 30 percent of your portfolio - most people will take strong steps to avoid it. They will pay too little attention to a comforting thought, which is that worst-case scenarios usually don't come to fruition.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Ben Stein If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Wyndham Lewis If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Bruce Greenwood If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • Bill Nye If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Brad Bird If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bob Kerrey If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.
    Bob Kerrey
    American politician (1943 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke If you take a candy bar in the short run, it gives you a burst of energy, but after a while, it just makes you fat.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bobby Short If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.
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  • Aaron C. Brown If you want to understand financial markets, and their effects on the economy, you have to understand the trading game. Many short-term price movements are neither random nor caused by economic fundamentals. They're caused by investors buying and selling.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 1
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Edward Young Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Bill Flores Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke In a slow-growing world that is short on aggregate demand, Germany's trade surplus is a problem.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Brad Feld In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Carol Loomis In general, the hedge funds were clobbered by the 1969 bear market, ending up in many cases with records that were worse than those put together by aggressive mutual funds denied the luxury of short sales.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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